🔒 Re-railing my creativity
I respond to an impromptu playlist in real time in an effort to nourish my creativity. It genuinely seems to have dom...
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🔒 Scary Commission 🎃
I can’t believe I’m being let loose on this commission – swinging between being frozen in fear to f...
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🔒 How am I today?
Just a little update with bits and pieces or premieres and publishings while I have my hands pretty full with a show ...
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🔒 Another Speed-Carol!
I speed-wrote a carol for an anthology! I discovered unexpected things about what seems to make a carol a carol.
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🔒 Could it be more composer growth?!
I broke a pattern and avoided making one of my favourite mistakes. Who knew this was possible? Let’s enjoy this...
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Off-beats on the brain
Premiere Night: The Upshot
After my “Premiere Night: Mini-Update”, I thought I’d let you know how the whole thing played out i...
🔒 Short film commission a.k.a. “The Collaborat...
Fruits of a collaboration failure! I thought it would be fun to share something that nobody else will ever hear!
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🔒 Premiere Night: Mini-Update
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Patron-inspired piece!
Inspired by my earlier update, I decided to get right on and follow my own advice. Feeling much better – thank ...
🔒 A little squashed, a little bruised.
Is this a diary entry? Is this a big life, self and career realisation? I can’t see the wood for the trees at t...
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Lunchtime piano impro TOMORROW!
🔒 Composer Growth? A Rambling
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🔒 An important memory
Doing my tax return and going through old diaries lets me relive – whether I want to or not – my past mon...
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🔒 The pianist meets the composer?
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🔒 Mini-update a.k.a. A teenage composer in a grown-u...
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🔒 The Music Patron Q&A
A series of interviews with our Music Patron composers talking about their musical inspirations and what life as a co...
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🔒 The earliest of drafts!
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🔒 It’s a premiere night 🤩
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🔒 Supersonic Mirth 🎄
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Another Morbid Mini-Piece!
It’s still that time of year for me where grief is at the front of my mind. Here’s another tiny piece tha...
🔒 Replugging in my creativity
Returning to London having conducted and arranged a baroque opera left me quite out of touch with the boundary-free s...
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🔒 I’m back from the depths of Arrangerland (so...
Just me chatting to the camera in a heat wave about everything I’ve been up to preparing for opening our produc...
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See how they run; – Ligeti Quartet Workshop
🔒 Bits of Me: Video 1
The first in a series of videos where I introduce myself to you properly. Here is a behind the scenes video of me and...
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Penultimate Draft – Behind the Composer Scen...
I’ve just had a composition lesson with Benjamin Oliver; he suggested that this piece perhaps needed one more s...
🔒 There she is!
She’s been opening a show! Here’s a sneak peak of what I’ve been up to, MDing Passion by Sondheim i...
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🔒 Who do you think I am?
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Piano + Perfect Game of Snake = …
🔒 Composer Commentary: i only bite because you make ...
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🔒 New Patrons – Thank You…and Welcome!
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